Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mark of Cain. One root of the problem, Schuman believes, is that young Americans "are raised to believe life is a matter of risk taking." Says he: "Driver training today is as outmoded as the dinosaur; we've got to teach youngsters to live with their cars, to 'cool it.' " The high accident rate and death toll of young male drivers also bothers insurance companies. Richard G. Chilcott, vice president of Nationwide Mutual Insurance, recently suggested that "mark of Cain" license plates be issued to drivers with bad records, restricting them to essential trips. And New York...
...program administered by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Cornell's is considered the best and biggest; it now enrolls 67 graduate students. Yet even Cornell has turned out only two Viet Nam experts at the Ph.D. level. Only a few thoroughly grounded Viet Nam scholars teach regularly in the U.S., the most notable of them being Paul Mus, a Frenchman who divides his time between Yale and the College de France...
...that confusing country. That particular blend of ability and interest has been scarce, and it takes about ten years to train such a scholar.* The war itself, Fairbank notes wryly, should produce some men who are eager to study the area-but by the time they are ready to teach, the whole matter, hopefully, will once again be academic...
...latest ploy of the gun magazines is to involve the whole family. "I weaned my boys on armadillo shooting," began one article. "Teach 'Em Young, Teach 'Em Right," was the title of a Guns & Ammo piece, accompanied by an illustration of a three-year-old girl getting instructions in the use of a revolver. This family concern is reflected in advertising. "Easy as pie," says an ad in Gun World promoting hand loading. A comely matron is shown holding a plateful of cartridges as if it were a pie, while her three admiring daughters look on. "Today," continued...
Allis-Chalmers, for its part, thought it might teach Ling a thing or two. Within 48 hours, its board replied with a blunt rejection of the L-T-V offer, announced that "shareholders will be far better served" by a possible merger in the works with General Dynamics. Ling, back in Dallas by now, was unfazed. He merely uncorked "Plan B"-a new offer to buy all of the stock for a mix of cash plus two classes of L-T-V shares worth, by LTV's estimate, around $55 per share of Allis-Chalmers' common. Moreover...